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Booz & Company booz.com
Build something great
For nearly a century, we have been working closely with clients on their toughest challenges, helping them make the changes that lead to sustained success. And while that focus remains the same, we are also evolving to keep ahead. We are dedicated to creating and delivering the essential advantage our clients need to survive and thrive in a changing world. Since the launch of Booz & Company, we have added more than 130 new partners, have seen strong traction in the marketplace for our intellectual capital and have expanded our global presence in targeted emerging markets including Russia, India and China.
A career at Booz & Company demands world-class thinking, experience and expertise. You will have the opportunity to work with diverse and engaging colleagues to help prestigious organizations around the world seize their most promising opportunities and solve their most pressing problems. You’ll help clients envision strategies to further their missions and then work side-by-side with them to bring those strategies to life.
Our founder, Edwin Booz, defined the profession when he established the first management consulting business in 1914.
We believe passionately that essential advantage lies within and that a few differentiating capabilities drive any organization’s identity and success. We work with our clients to discover and build those capabilities that give them the right to win their chosen markets.
Booz & Company has always been known for its influential global studies and books, and its management magazine, strategy+business. We developed the concepts of human capital in the 1940s, the PERT chart and product life cycle in the 1950s, supply chain management in the 1980s, smart customization in the 1990s, and organizational DNA in the 2000s.
Recent publications by Booz & Company authors include:
The Essential Advantage (Harvard Business Review Press), by Paul Leinwand and Cesare Mainardi.
“Creating an Organic Growth Machine” (Harvard Business Review), by Ken Favaro, David Meer, and Samrat Sharma.
Leading Outside the Lines (Jossey-Bass), by Jon Katzenbach and Zia Khan.
The China Strategy (Basic Books), by Edward Tse.
Cut Costs, Grow Stronger (Harvard Business School Press), by Shumeet Banerji, Cesare Mainardi, and Paul Leinwand.
Always On: Advertising, Marketing, and Media in an Era of Consumer Control (McGraw-Hill), by Christopher Vollmer.
Make or Break: How Manufacturers Can Leap from Decline to Revitalization (McGraw-Hill), by Kaj Grichnik and Conrad Winkler.
“The Global Innovation 1000” (Booz & Company), by Barry Jaruzelski, John Loehr, and Richard Holman.
What we believe
Essential advantage lies within. A few differentiatingcapabilities drive identity and success.
We help our clients achieve essential advantage by working with them to identify and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform.
Our clients benefit from our experience in a wide array of sectors as well as from our diverse capabilities. Our deep functional expertise provides us with the knowledge to solve our clients’ toughest problems while building their capabilities. Our experience in a broad variety of industries allows us to handle the most profound and urgent challenges of our day.
Deep functional expertise
Corporate FinanceEnterprise StrategyDigital Business & TechnologyMarketing & SalesMergers & Restructuring OperationsOrganization, Change & LeadershipProduct & Service Innovation
In-depth industry knowledge
Aerospace & DefenseAutomotiveChemicalsConsumer ProductsEnergy & UtilitiesFinancial ServicesGovernment Departments & MinistriesHealth
IndustrialsMedia & EntertainmentOil & GasPrivate EquityRetailTechnologyTelecommunicationsTransportation
What we do
We work with our clients to identify and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform.
Booz & Company works closely with the world’s leading institutions, public and private, to create and deliver essential advantage. We are a firm of practical strategists known for our functional expertise, industry foresight, and “sleeves rolled up” approach to working with our clients.
Other projects have included:
– Helping one of the world’s largest oil companies become a major provider of solar power.
– Running strategic wargames for consortia seeking to combat the spread of HIV/AIDS in rural regions.
– Partnering with a major pharmaceutical company to create a direct-to-pharmacy distribution model that will protect many patients from the threat of counterfeit medicines.
– Developing a strategy for a major consumer-oriented company to revive a 40-year-old brand and successfully relaunch it worldwide.
– Working with a national government to roll out a smart card so that 20 million people could seamlessly access social services.
– Helping major telecommunications service providers migrate from legacy to next-generation networks.
Who we are
Practical strategists. First in foresight. Collaborative by nature. Committed to our clients’ success.
At Booz & Company you will have the opportunity to make an extraordinary impact both at the Firm and on the trajectory of the world’s leading institutions.
Solve Complex Problems You will work with sophisticated, global clients to identify and build the differentiating capabilities they need to outperform.
Deliver Essential Advantage We are down-to-earth, practical strategists known for our functional expertise and industry foresight; we believe a few differentiating capabilities drive identity and success.
Entrepreneurial Spirit We offer unusual potential for people at all levels to contribute to building Booz & Company, where an entrepreneurial spirit exists inside a well-established firm.
We have been involved in some of the most celebrated business episodes of their day. The dawn of the contract system for Hollywood movies, the merger of the National and American football leagues, the rescue of Chrysler Corporation from bankruptcy and the creation of Deutsche Telekom all involved Booz & Company assignments.
Build companies
When you join Booz & Company you will work in a close-knit professional community and develop distinctive depth and expertise that will enable you to build capabilities at our clients.
Deep Connections Our unique approach to consulting creates positive, high-impact relationships with clients—which fosters growth and cultivates clients for life.
Become Famous for Something At Booz & Company you will develop a unique professional brand that provides powerful value to clients and enables rapid opportunity creation.
Highly Collaborative Approach We do it with the client, not for the client.
Build capabilities
Principal
Thought leader
“Officer in Training“
Industry or functional expert
Owner of multiple senior
client relationships
Driver of follow-on business
Officer
Set firm's strategic vision
Industry or functional visionary
Owner of client relationships
Driver of new business
Senior Associate
Engagement manager
Owner of day-to-day
relationship
Aligned to industry or
functional domain
MBA Entry Point
Associate
Strategist
Issue “owner“
Client team manager
Relationship builder
Undergraduate/ Graduate Entry Point
Consultant/Senior Consultant
Analyst
Researcher
Booz & Company career ladder
Our people are our greatest asset. At Booz & Company we support people in every role to make a difference and to realize their aspirations within the Firm and beyond.
Exceptional Individuals We recognize that it takes diverse talents and perspectives to develop the innovative solutions our clients expect. And we believe the most effective teams reflect diverse backgrounds and ideas. We constantly strive to support initiatives around diversity and to tackle the challenges posed in a multinational and multiethnic workforce such as ours.
Inspired Teaming At Booz & Company we believe that we possess a collaborative spirit that brings out greatness in our people and enables us to bring the “Best of Booz” to the market.
Different Learning Our teamwork, deep expertise and breadth of client and geographic opportunities provide you with distinctive and unique on-the-job learning each day. This is combined with institutional professional development that includes comprehensive orientations, mentoring and performance coaching and a curriculum tailored to your development needs.
Life After Booz We serve as a springboard to future career opportunities and a lifelong vibrant community of colleagues.
Build careers
Booz & Company worldwide offices
The most recent list of our offices and affiliates, with addresses and telephone numbers, can be found on our web site, booz.com.
Asia Beijing DelhiHong KongMumbai Seoul ShanghaiTaipeiTokyo
Australia, New Zealand and Southeast Asia Bangkok Brisbane Canberra Jakarta Kuala Lumpur Melbourne Sydney
Europe Amsterdam Berlin Copenhagen Düsseldorf Frankfurt Helsinki IstanbulLondon Madrid Milan Moscow Munich Paris Rome Stockholm Stuttgart Vienna Warsaw Zurich
South AmericaBuenos Aires Rio de Janeiro Santiago São Paulo
Middle East Abu Dhabi Beirut CairoDohaDubaiRiyadh
North America AtlantaBoston Chicago Cleveland Dallas DCDetroit Florham Park Houston Los Angeles Mexico City New York Parsippany San Francisco
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Booz & Company Inc.
Founded 1914
More than 3,000 staff members
58 offices in more than
28 countries worldwide
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